Why American Ecotech for Aluminum Air Monitoring?

  • American Ecotech have proven, industry leading, configurable air monitoring solutions for the aluminum industry.  Our air monitoring solutions are increasingly being seen as the benchmark for quality, performance, usability and reliability.
  • Only American Ecotech provides all the key components including hardware, software, applications, analysis, design, installation, maintenance and data monitoring and reporting to provide a complete air monitoring solution for your aluminum business. American Ecotech's advanced air monitoring analytic capabilities for the aluminum provides the information necessary to enable informed decision making on business and compliance management challenges.
  • American Ecotech provides a completely integrated air monitoring solution for aluminum  industry, with functionality that optimizes air monitoring compliance and decision making
  • We have a commitment to our clients that goes well beyond the sale of hardware.  We work with you to make the air monitoring solution meet your business needs.

In the aluminum industry, the measurement of particulates, SO2, NOx, fluorides and greenhouse gas emissions requires careful selection of instrumentation. American Ecotech offers a complete aluminum monitoring solution tailored to this industry.

Aluminium refinery

The production of aluminum takes in three main processes, bauxite mining, refining of bauxite into alumina and finally the electrolytic reduction of alumina into aluminum. Each process has its own set of environmental issues.  American Ecotech can assist with the monitoring of each phase.

Bauxite Mining

Bauxite mining can have significant particulate/dust emissions due to the extraction process that involves explosives and the transporting of raw materials to the smelter.

Bauxite refining

(Bayer Process) requires significant amounts of water and energy to separate the alumina from bauxite. producing gaseous emissions that include particulates, SO2 and NOx.

Aluminum refining

(Hall Heroult Process) uses sodium aluminum fluoride(cryolite) and an electric current to electrolyse alumina to aluminum. The process is energy intensive. Emissions include fluorides and particulates. SO2, NOx and CO are also generated by the power stations used to supply the refinery with electricity.

Global warming is of special interest to the aluminum industry as approximately 14 MWhr/tonne is required for the aluminium refining process resulting in associated high levels of CO2 greenhouse emissions.
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Products and systems of interest include:

Ambient Air Quality Systems

Ambient air quality is of concern due to emissions of NOx, SO2, fluorides and particulates. Regulatory authorities usually insist that these parameters are continuously measured.

Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems

American Ecotech is able to offer a complete monitoring solution for emissions monitoring to meet all compliance requirements. American Ecotech is also able to offer CO2 monitoring systems that can be used to assist you in meeting legislative requirements for carbon trading schemes.

Particulate Samplers

Suitable for the monitoring of TSP, PM10 and PM2.5 in ambient air.

Particulate Monitors

Suitable for the continuous monitoring of PM around bauxite mining activities.    

Meteorological Systems

Suitable for monitoring of meteorological conditions in order to determine direction of air emissions.